Pinkerton Computer Consultants history

Observing a need for organization in the field of law enforcement, Pinkerton founded his detective agency in 1850.

Convinced that President Lincoln was the target of an assassination plot in Boston in 1861, the Pinkerton Agency persuaded Lincoln to amend his travel plans, providing guards to guarantee his safe passage back to Washington.

Allan Pinkerton died in 1884, and his sons William and Robert succeeded him as co-principals of the agency; William directed operations in the West from his office in Chicago, while Robert maintained an office in New York and supervised the eastern operations.

The company's 1944 gross income topped $4 million, $1.7 million of which represented such wartime work.

Simmons, J.R.M., LEO and the Managers, MacDonald, London, 1962; reviewed in Ann.

That gave me a hell of an edge philosophically." Over the next 20 years, Wathen developed CPP into a successful business with annual revenues of $250 million, up from $163,000 in 1964.

Although its role in police work had diminished, the company prospered, maintaining over 70 branch offices throughout the world by 1968.

In 1983, Pinkerton's was purchased by American Brands for $162 million.

In 1989 Pinkerton's combined revenues totaled $605 million.

In 1990 he received an honorary DSc from Loughborough University.